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Is jQuery method chaining an example of fluent programming?

I'm somewhat new to JavaScript/jQuery, but when I saw examples of method chaining it struck me as instantly familiar. Other interfaces like LINQ do something similar where the return type of a set of methods is the same as the type they operate on (TweetSharp does something very similar). Is this an example of fluent programming? Much of what I read about jQuery says that other libraries have "borrowed" this idea of method chaining - did the idea originate with jQuery?

Solution

  • jQuery indeed heavily follows the builder pattern / fluent interface, but it is certainly not the pioneer of the design pattern at whole own. The other libraries likely followed after jQuery and borrowed its approach. It's just the fame jQuery has made which make it look like to originate with jQuery.